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They're No. 2s-and they're trying hard No one much cared what William Miller said about Hubert Humphrey in 1964, or what charges Sargent Shriver leveled against Spiro Agnew in 1972. The truth is, no one has much cared what any vice-presidential candidate said or did-until this year. By selecting a woman, the Democrats made the 1984 contest for Vice President more intriguing than it has ever been. Indeed, the sideshow is regularly getting as much focus as the main event, partly because the electoral outcome seems predictable...
...yourself what exactly she was supposed to have done that had Washington wondering if she could survive on the ticket-and one conservative columnist wryly advising Democrats to start warming up Sargent Shriver in the bullpen...
...measurably negative. The revelation in 1972 that George McGovern's little-known running mate, Senator Thomas Eagleton, had undergone electroshock therapy doomed whatever tiny chance of success the Democrats had. In the wake of the furor, which resulted in Eagleton's being replaced by Sargent Shriver, one poll showed confidence in McGovern plummeting by 25%. In 1952 Richard Nixon's alleged association with a political slush fund became an embarrassment for Dwight Eisenhower, though not a fatal one. More recently, Senator Robert Dole was judged by some pollsters to be a drag on Gerald Ford...
...ordained. "Associates" (20%) are celibate but do not live in communities or do advanced theological study. "Supernumeraries" (50%) are not celibate and follow modified commitments. Each category contains roughly equal numbers of men and women. There are also 700,000 "cooperators," like 1972 Vice-Presidential Nominee Sargent Shriver, who are not members but sympathizers. Cooperators need not be Catholics or even Christians, a radical concept when Escrivá instituted...
Donald W. Shriver Jr., President